Re: BSOD due to base????32

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message news:eKqdtfByIHA.6096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: "Indiana" <Indiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Thanks david that worked like a charm!!! stupid viruses anyway!!
|

YW

Interesting how I am seeing a recent flurry of what appears to be variants of the SubSys
type of Trojan.


I've seen two computers in the past week with problems that may be related. They wouldn't boot, both had blue screens with a STOP 8E. I removed the drives to try and copy data off prior to fixing the problem. Any Windows computer that tried to access these drives got the same BSOD even when the drive was connected via a USB adapter. Linux could see the file structure but not access any files. It appeared the bootsector and partition table was corrupted. I zeroed out sector 0 and was able to recover some data after that. The drives tested fine with several hd testing programs. The hardware on both computers checked out OK. Both customers said the last thing they saw was something that sounded like a typical rougue antispyware hijack/extortion. They fell for it and clicked on scan my computer now. On the next boot the problem occurred. It looks like something is trying to alter the partition table in an attempt to hide but failing miserably.

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Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/

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